27 Pounds In 14 Weeks… My Journey Begins Now

June 24th, 2009. Published under 14 Week Challenge, Main Content. No Comments.

So now I’ve decided to embark on a new journey… it’s actually more of a challenge than anything else.

When I was in high school, I was a big kid. Not fat or anything like that but I was big. Well, my senior year of high school I took a class at the local community college (Irvine Valley College or Iranian Valley College as some of my friends called it) in writing and for as much crap as I gave my professor for making me read this damn book, it ended up changing my life.

The book was called Fast Food Nation and if you haven’t read it yet, go to amazon and pick up a copy. Seriously, it’s a kick ass book and well pretty gross at the same time.

So anyway, my professor, his first name was Kurt (I don’t remember the last name) had us read this book for class. At the time I was bored to hell reading the book (I always hated having someone tell me what to read especially because I didn’t like reading all that much at the time) and in fact I stopped reading it.

I think I stopped because he wanted us to read too much too fast and I was a slow reader.

Hey, I only read one book throughout my entire High School career (Things Fall Apart) and just graduated from UCLA only reading 1 of my required readings (Don Quixote) so yeah, I was slow.

How’s that for sticking it to your teachers for making you read too much too fast. I simply didn’t do it.

Alright, well what ended up happening was actually pretty crazy… After I left the class I did something I don’t think I’d ever done in my life except for the occasional books on The Mighty Ducks (I loved hockey growing up), Matilda and Holes (that book was awesome and if you think otherwise you’re a fool), I actually decided to read the book for my own pleasure (and at my own pace damnit!).

Well, after I read the book my life literally changed.

I went from weighing 230 pounds as a football player (I played O-line and my coach to this day calls me the skinniest center in America) to losing 45 pounds and completely changing my diet.

I literally was eating fast food of some sort every single day and was probably drinking a soda pretty damn often too.

But after I read the book… no more fast food, no more soda and I did the best I possibly could to only natural and organic foods. I’m telling you my life completely changed.

So after all that, I went to college and found perhaps some of the greatest stuff ever produced on this incredible planet… If you know me at all, you know exactly what I’m talking about (and if you say you didn’t do this you’re a liar!), yup alcohol became a good buddy of mine.

I mean come one… you could do a bunch of stupid stuff, hear stories the next day about what you did and if anything was really that bad you could just blame it on the booze. It was a win-win situation in my book.

But I didn’t realize this one small side effect of it… Evidently you get fat from drinking… Who the hell was the wise ass to bring something so good into this world but do something so bad? I’d like to have a talk with that dude…

Anyway, I gained a bunch of weight throughout college (I was never fat, just not as “fit” as I would have liked to have been) and when I started to gain weight, I said screw it and started eating whatever I wanted and yup, gained some more weight.

So today (well I’m writing this a week later so let’s just pretend…) I stand at a solid 227 pounds of rock solid something that aint muscle. Maybe “husky” is a term I’ll use… well… maybe not.

And now, I’ve decided that enough is enough. I’m taking control of this whole situation and gonna give it the big ole middle finger by the end of it…

I’m on a mission to lose 27 pounds in 14 weeks. Totally doable as far as I’m concerned. It’s just under 2 pounds a week so why not?

Now this isn’t just about losing the weight… I think that’d be cool but there’s a much bigger reason for this than that…

My entire life for the most part was made up of me being a little bit bigger than most people. And I’m sick of it… I’ve always dreamed of being in killer shape with a six-pack and I’ve never been able to do it. So now I’m on a mission… I want to get into the best shape of my life and really start to feel healthy again.

I may not get 6 pack abs… I may not be as ripped as some other folks by the end of these 14 weeks but hell, I’m gonna be way closer than before… At least I’ll have some momentum built up to get to my ultimate goal.

Now, what I’ve decided to do is to use this blog (I didn’t have all that much stuff on it anyway) and use it as my place to record everything that I’m doing… Use it to I guess keep myself accountable and to see if I can motivate some other folks to do the same thing and take some massive action to change their lives.

So this is my little challenge for myself and anyone else that feels like jumping on board. I may not update this every single day (I do have a life too) but I’m gonna try damn hard to do it. Rest assured I’ll be posting just about every day and at the very least 3 times a week on what I’m doing…

LOL! I just realized that last paragraph was written like somebody is actually reading this and for all I know this is just some random site that’s never seen.

You’re reading this right now (whoever you are…) so this was just for you .

Let the journey begin…

Cheers,

–Curt

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